Vegan Buttermilk Biscuits

When’s a biscuit not a biscuit?Depends on where you are, I’d say.In India (where the English is of course a legacy of its British colonizers), and in many other parts of the world, a biscuit is the name for a cookie. Or a cookie’s called a biscuit. You get my drift?

So when I first moved here, I was surprised to find out that a biscuit here wasn’t a cookie at all but a flaky, sublime experience of layered deliciousness.

As you can tell, I fell in love with the American biscuit.

Especially buttermilk biscuits which have a really tender crumb. To recreate buttermilk in my kitchen without animal ingredients, I used soy milk and vinegar. It was perfect.

I cook these up every chance I get. They are an unsweet scone, really, and therefore perfect for any kind of topping from jelly to a dab of vegan spread to even a dollop of peanut butter. Or you can, of course, serve them up with any spicy gravy and a side of mashed potatoes. Yum.

I have come across biscuits being described as used a part of a meal .. usually used to mop up that last bit of gravy .. I think that is the american version … love the look of your ‘stark naked’ biscuits. Can feel their discomfit under that glaring camera light.

Proud to be a vegetarian– You don’t mix in the butter thoroughly. You want it to be dispersed in small pieces throughout the flour so it will melt in the oven and create little flaky air pockets. That’s the whole idea behind using very cold fat– so it doesn’t melt into the flour.I would advise using vegetable shortening instead of butter to make these biscuits really flaky, but if you want to use butter, go ahead and use salted. But leave out the 1/2 tsp of salt in the recipe.

Oh my goodness, these are amazing! I’m from the south, where we have biscuits for breakfast with our sausage and eggs, or in the evening with dinner too. Since I’ve been vegan, I’ve been looking for a good recipe, and now I’ve found it – just made some and they taste incredible. Thank you so much for this recipe!!

Finally I got a chance to bake these biscuits this year a day b4 Christmas. These tasted heavenly. I used vegan butter and all purpose flour. My fiancee is an Omni and any non-veg food is on his top list. He loved these like anything and said he won’t eat biscuits sold outside and even asked me to bookmark your recipe. He cooked Pav-Bhaji (only Bhaji :)) and we all friends enjoyed our dinner with wonderful vegan food including desserts. Once again, Thank you very much and wish you and Desi and the Pets very happy new year. Keep writing as you get time

Fabulous! Thanks for this recipie. After living in The South(southern US)I did not think it possible that the best buttermilk biscuits I’d taste would contain neither butter nor milk . I followed the recipie exactly, though used all (2c) white whole wheat flour (didn’t have any pastry flour) and instead of making sour ‘milk’ with vinegar, I used (plain) nondairy yogurt (in this case coconut-based). They were awesome. Thanks!

Baked these a few days ago…something told me it seemed like a lot of baking powder, but I shrugged it off given the other reviews. When they came out, they smelled like baking powder and were bitter. Not willing to give up, I used 1/2 a teaspoon less baking powder than your recipe calls for the next time I made them. This time, they were light, fluffy, savory, and tasted great. No baking powder smell. Wondering if anyone else experienced the baking powder bitterness when they made these.